Zynewave has updated Podium to v2.09 and changed the purchase and licensing policy (and lowered the price of a Podium license to $50). Version 2.0.9 includes a redesigned piano roll editor and new editing and customization options.
Changes in v2.0.9:
- The price of a Podium license is now only 50 US$. This is the result of a change in the licensing and upgrade policy. The zynewave.com purchase page has all the details. Existing customers are not affected by the changes.
- Updated the piano roll editor with a new scalable photographic keyboard image.
- The "white key contrast" value in the piano roll region properties can be set from 0% (white keys drawn with the panel color of the current color scheme) to 100% (true white/black colors).
- Increased the resolution of vertical zoom in the piano roll editor. The old +/- vertical zoom keys are replaced with a zoom slider.
- Clicking the piano roll keyboard will keep the note playing until the mouse button is released. Dragging up or down the keyboard will retrigger the played note. The clicked horizontal position controls the attack velocity.
- Alt+clicking any ghost note shown in the piano roll timeline will switch the editor to the corresponding sequence.
- The piano roll region properties dialog is extended with several new options: "colorize notes with track color", "draw notes with shadow effect", "highlight octave separators", "highlight black keys", "double-click to delete", "create clone of selected note with pencil tool" and "audition selected and edited notes".
- The Shift/Ctrl/Alt-click actions on the piano keyboard can be customized separately for the select and pencil tool. The available actions include various note selections with audition, and a set of commands for step editing.
- Using the step-editing actions on the piano keyboard will add/delete notes at the edit cursor position. The editor quantize value determines the duration of the notes. If the edit cursor is moved using keyboard shortcuts before releasing the mouse then the current edit cursor position determines the duration. If looping is enabled then the edit cursor stepping wraps around at the loop end position. If playback is started and the "link edit cursor to play cursor" option is enabled then the start and duration of the added notes are determined by the real-time position of the play cursor.
- Enabling the "show quantization button panel" option in the piano roll region properties will show a panel of shortcut buttons to the left of the piano keyboard. Clicking the buttons will set the editor quantize value. Ctrl+Clicking the buttons will quantize the start of selected events. Alt+Clicking the buttons will set the duration of selected events.
- The timeline grid now reflects the editor snap settings. If snap is enabled and is not set to bar snapping, then the snap grid is drawn instead of the arrangement time-signature grid.
- Resizing a note event by dragging either the start or the end of the note will resize all notes in a multiple note selection. The resizing is done in realtime instead of on mouse release.
- When inserting new notes by double-clicking with the select tool or by single-clicking with the pencil tool, before releasing the mouse button you can drag left/right to resize or up/down to adjust velocity.
- Added note event "Alt+Click" and "Alt+Double-click" customizable edit actions. Available edit actions include: drag velocity, drag size, drag size proportionally (for multiple note selections) and delete events.
- Added "piano roll region properties" shortcut to the piano roll keyboard right-click menu.
